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| | |  Sodom: Encyclopedia - Chedorlaomer
Chedorlaomer - In the Torah.
Chedorlaomer is the name given to a king of Elam (Genesis xiv. 1), who made conquests as far west as Canaan and exercised supremacy over its southeastern part. After paying tribute to him for twelve years, the five local kings, or princes (King Shinab of Admah, the unnamed king of Bala-Zoar, King Birsha of Gomorrah, Bera king of Sodom, and King Shemeber of Zeboyim), rebelled in the thirteenth year, and in the fourteenth were assailed and reduced by Chedorlaomer, assisted by Amr ...
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| | | | Sodom: Encyclopedia - Amraphel In the Tanakh or Old Testament, Amraphel was a king of Shinar (Babylonia, broadly speaking) in Genesis xiv.1 and 9, who invaded the west along with Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and others, and destroyed Sodom.
Beginning with E. Schrader (Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with Hammurabi, who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, according to The Oxford Companion to the Bible, this view has been largely abandoned in recent years.
In the Midrash and the later Rabbinical l ...
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| | | | Sodom: Encyclopedia - Sodom and Gomorrah In Genesis 18, God informs Abraham that he plans to destroy the city of Sodom because of its gross immorality. Abraham pleads with God not to destroy Sodom, and God agrees that he would not destroy the city if there were 50 righteous people in it, then 45, then 30, then 20, or even 10 righteous people. After much searching, Abraham only finds one righteous person living in Sodom, his nephew Lot. Consequently, God follows through with his plans to destroy the city.
In Genesis 19, the final episode in the story of Sodom is described as ...
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| | | | Sodom: Encyclopedia - Wounds band Wounds is a band, formed 1997 with other name and line-up in Harjavalta, Finland. In December 1998 Soldehed, Ovaskainen Walkama took new guitarist, Jouni Hertell to the band and our old guitarist P.P Walkama started to play bass guitar. In the beginning Wounds were mostly influenced by old 80’s Metallica, Slayer, 80’s Sepultura. Later by Morbid Angel, Stone (band), Sarcófago, Deicide, Impaled Nazarene, Sodom, Cannibal Corpse among many others. In summer 1999 Wounds recorded their first demo/rehearsal tape ”Brown In Sight”, wh ...
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| | | | Sodom: Encyclopedia - Vale of Siddim This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
Vale of Siddim - valley of the broad plains, "which is the salt sea" (Genesis 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was "full of slime-pits" (R.V., "bitumen pits"). Here Chedorlaomer and the confederate kings overthrew the kings of Sodom and the cities of the plain.God afterwards, on account of their wickedness, "overthrew those cities, and all the plain, an ...
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| | | | Sodom: Encyclopedia - Genesis Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" and "origin"), also called The First Book of Moses, is the first book of Torah (five books of Moses), and is the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament.
In Hebrew, it is called בראשית (Bereshit or Bərêšîth, Hebrew word #7225 in Strong's), after the first word of the text in Hebrew (meaning "in the beginning of"). This is in ...
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